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An experiment that could become permanent:
YouTube's annoying ads often push those who don't want to pay $120 for YouTube Premium to use ad blockers. But Google isn't happy about this potentially lost revenue, and has decided to experiment with a feature that urges ad-blocker users to think again.
Redditor Sazk100 posted a screenshot earlier this week showing a YouTube popup warning that ad blockers are not allowed on the platform. It notes that ads allow YouTube to stay free for billions of users worldwide, and that an ad-free experience is available via the paid-for YouTube Premium. The message finishes with two options: Allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium, which is $11.99 per month or $119.99 per year for access to original programs and no ads.
Some users who've seen it say they have been able to simply close the pop-up and continue blocking ads on YouTube, but it's likely that Google will clamp down on this, or make the pop-up appear regularly enough to be a distraction.
The moderators of the YouTube subreddit wrote that an employee had confirmed the ad-blocker message was an experiment by YouTube. A Google spokesperson expanded on this in a statement to IGN.
"We're running a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium," they said. "Ad blocker detection is not new, and other publishers regularly ask viewers to disable ad blockers."
While most online companies make their revenue from ads, some complain that YouTube has gone too far, citing its increasing number of unskippable and extended mid-roll ads.
(Score: 3, Informative) by MIRV888 on Friday May 12, @11:48AM (7 children)
Media servers have 0 ads, ever. With 18TB USB drives available now, this is clearly the way to go. You just gotta find someone with a decent media library.
It takes a week to copy 14 TB with usb 2. So I'm told.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12, @12:29PM (5 children)
A week? How on earth does it keep track of all that data?
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Friday May 12, @12:50PM (4 children)
This sort of thing is what bittorrent and jigdo style transfer programs are great for. Check to see what files you've got, check to see which ones don't match and then patch/download the bits that are different.
I am a bit curious though as to precisely who it is that is using USB2 for this sort of large transfer. If you've got that many files, it seems like USB3 or some other bus would be more appropriate.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 12, @02:03PM (2 children)
>If you've got that many files, it seems like USB3 or some other bus would be more appropriate.
My media servers aren't the most up-to-date or powerful computers in the house...
My drives are only 2TB, but the oldest is pushing 12 years of age now.
2TB can copy across USB 2.0 and WiFi in about a day, or so I'm told.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Friday May 12, @02:53PM (1 child)
OK, that makes sense, that just seemed kind of odd to me. So, it's quite a bit faster than Windows 10 then. Copying that much stuff to or from a USB2 device would take like a week, or more. It's absurd that after so many decades, MS still can't get things like that right. FreeBSD can do the same thing in a much more reasonable time frame.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 12, @03:23PM
Yeah, I was doing an scp from Ubuntu to Ubuntu, via in house WiFi, it was going fast enough that I didn't bother to look for faster ways.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by MIRV888 on Friday May 19, @07:42AM
Yeah my server is IBM Xeon 2.66 Ghz quad with 5 4Tb drives. It only has USB 2.0.
I know. It's ancient, but it does what I need it to do. It is nice making a backup onto a single drive. I used to have use more than one.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Friday May 12, @10:55PM
Some good content is created for YouTube. I support several groups via Patreon that do urban exploration. They document and capture beautiful buildings and infrastructure that the public would never get to see. You can't buy this stuff on physical media.
https://www.youtube.com/@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/@TheProperPeople [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/@bwturbex [youtube.com]